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Doug Hiller's avatar

“Donald Trump put forward a proposal for the parties to the conflict to mutually refrain from attacks on energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days”… the Russian continuous attacks on Ukraine “energy infrastructure” is mostly electricity production and distribution, to make the winter harsher for Ukraine civilians. Winter is almost over (!), their targeting is shifting to apartments and hospitals anyway (war crime targets, which trump didn’t mention). Ukraine has been attacking Russian military fuel products; production and storage - and facilities supporting energy exports for foreign currency to support the war. This is apples and oranges that trump will log as a diplomatic stroke of genius.

Putin will be so kind to the Ukrainian soldiers if they surrender ? YGBSM

Note that Putin requires stoppage of weapon supplies and rearmament for Ukraine and makes no mention of missiles or artillery ammo they import from N Korea.

I can just see the orange Putin Puppet’s head bobbing while he listened.

Folks, brace yourself. Our very own autocratic “dear leader” will very soon announce that Russia is coming right along with their part of the “diplomatic peace solution”… and he will commence to turn the screws on Zelensky to “get with the program, so we can have the deal”.

Macron, Starmer and Merz - please hurry.

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

Total surrender. Kursk, Crimea. Donbas? Time for Russia to re-arm, recover and track again. Control of the Black Sea. And Ukraine jut gets back as few prisoners. I don’t think so.

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James Aldridge's avatar

Putler kept the President waiting for half an hour to complete this call...Putler is playing Cheetolini for a fool...

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JBO's avatar

I was less polite than you.

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Paul Boyd's avatar

Yes. There is one person who understands Trump: Putin. He knows a loser when he sees one. He understands how to listen to someone who starts surrendering before negotiations even begin.

But that’s not the real problem, now. Often wars spawn other wars.

North Korea’s Kim gets in his troop training exercises in Kursk. But Kim has a different target: South Korea.

What Kim lacked, before Kursk, was combat hardened troops. Now he's building them every day. Putin, Xi and Kim, are all salivating over their next acquisition after Ukraine and an enfeebled EU - the latter two aided and abetted by Trump.

Kim, the wild card, is useful to autocrats seeking destabilization of the global order. He can be used to attack South Korea, driving home the retreat of the US from the modern world, on the cheap: whether he succeeds or not does not matter (except to Kim) because neither Russia not China will be involved in the battle. This one will be a sit back and watch event.

Kim's own nuclear weapons, another failed outcome of Trump 1.0, are ready-to-go, either in fact, or as a threat. South Korea is discovering its error in relying on the USA's nuclear umbrella. (Proliferation though is gearing up, thanks to Trump's incompetence, among Japan, and Poland, and others.)

As Trump continues to weaken the West, using only his golden image floating in his mind-mirror as guidance, real people are increasingly at risk.

And the Risk is the point.

As the world becomes a less-safe place, Trump is betting that Americans will seek security at home, and at home, there will be only Trump. Those who object? Well, that's who the camps are for.

Trump is currently working on returning Russia's frozen assets, restricting Ukraine's capacity to defend itself, and blackmailing Europe into accepting Putin as "one of the gang". This shameful chapter is just getting started.

Sad!

Slava Ukraini!

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billy mccarthy's avatar

i will not bomb your power stations, but i will bomb you hospitals, fcuk off putin

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Karenza's avatar

They are so comfortable together - both liars of the first order and completely untrustworthy. A call to action for Europe to move rapidly to replace the US as the major arms supplier and fully commit to the support of Ukraine as the defender of freedom everywhere.

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Richard Bedingfield's avatar

Pretty well as expected. Selective peace if they surrender and USA leaves them to get on with wiping Ukraine off the map. The really stupid part is that Russia really doesn't need any part of Ukraine and his fears of NATO are a fabrication. Just no! Over to you consortium of the willing!

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

When do we expect Trump’s cries of euphoria bout a well-negotiated winning situation?

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JBO's avatar

Just look on Truth Social.

He always delivers.

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Robert Honeyman's avatar

I feel so much better.

J/k Trascist the fascist.

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Sara Frischer's avatar

Thank you I hadn’t seen N Korea from that point of view. Ouch

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Jason Nyberg's avatar

Did Putin also ask for Zekensky to tie himself to the bumper of a truck and drag himself through the streets of Kiev? 🙄

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Baxter Wilson's avatar

No - no - no did I say no…can’t trust either of them!

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Norbert Bollow's avatar

Nothing worthwhile or otherwise surprising from the Kremlin. Just noise.

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Katherine (she/her)'s avatar

No - just no

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